raita

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  1. noun An Indian salad made with yogurt and chopped vegetables or fruits, such as cucumbers, spinach, or bananas.

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  • Saturday -- hoping for vegetarian Indian dosas with raita and sambal. —  CityMama™
  • Meats and cheeses are available by the pound or in an array of sandwiches that includes lamb with mint raita, muffuletta and ham —  NashvilleScene.com
  • • If your kids complain of loss of appetite, give them compact meals - stuffed paratha, subji wrapped in chappati, curd-rice, or raita khichdi
  • Clockwise from the top, we've got a homemade naan, chicken tikka and onion with a bit of cilantro leaves on top, a salad, some cucumber-scallion-cilantro raita, and a special —  Recipe Exchange
  • With two lettuces, poached apples, hazelnuts, blue cheese, cucumber raita, poached egg and peppercorn dressing, it sounded as if two or three salads had collided. —  Freep.com - RSS
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  1. Hindi rāytā, from Sanskrit *rājikātiktakaḥ, mustard pickle : rājikā, black mustard (probably from rājiḥ, streak, line, from ṛjyati, he stretches out; see reg- in Indo-European roots) + tiktaka-, bitter (from tikta-, past participle of tejate, it is sharp; see steig- in Indo-European roots).
 

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